1

Facism will come to america with a nifty logo!

 

Wait...that's how it seems to come everywhere.

2 Union First!!!

3 ok Union 2nd.

4 Facism will come to america with a nifty logo!

and "for the children"...

5

Shits bad. real bad.

 

There is not getting around it. He's an imperial president.

 

I'm done bickering, i don't care if we nominate Ron Paul, we have to get Obama out of office and away from any power as soon as possible.

6 This illuminates my biggest problem with Obama. I'm not talking about the obvious; that I despise his politics and policies. No, it is that he has no dignity, he has no respect for the office, and he has no understanding of his position withing our government.

7 Execute Order Sixty-six.

8 COOTUS!

9

OT - Caught a side shot of Megyn Kelly on her show and she is very pregnant! She was just joking with guests that she can't buy a pair of boots (to support the troops) right now due to being bloated but as soon as baby is born she's in. Sounds like she is more than ready for it to be done.

10 And to think these idiots still believe that Tim Kaine can win the Senate seat in Virginia.  If he runs, he's going to be stuck explaining shit like this, which is indefensible to any sane person.

11 This is what happens when you make a community organizer president. It's what he does. It's who he is. It's what he believes in.

12

On the upside, Obama has fixed all our national problems so he has plently of time to focus on state issues.

I think Walker needs to tell him to f*ck off. And soon.

 

We cannot lose this. Anyone in the Wisconsin area, please turn up for Breitbarts counter  protest.

13 Execute Order Sixty-six.

^{Posted by: Darth JugEars at February 18, 2011 02:57 PM (RykTt)}

 

When's it going to be time for Executive Order # 69?

14

Ha. Remember the months and months and breaking stories on the NEW LEAD on WHO IS MANUFACTURING THE TEA PARTY PROTESTS.

They try to create a fiction to smear the right with, and it's just peachy when the left actually does it.

15 $100,000+ salaries for these cocksuckers in Wisconsin? And they are crying poverty? They don't want to have to pay anything? Everyone I know has to kick in for health insurance and retirement.

Fuck 'em. I hope they all get fired.

16 You know, I've been predicting that the first major battle in this new civil war would either be between public-sector workers and the private sector, or between retirees and workers. It looks like the PubSec vs Private Sector battles come first. Much will hinge on how this thing works out in Wisconsin. I think Democrats are hoping that one of two things will happen: either the GOP will buckle, or that the enraged Democrat throngs will get bored and go home. Either outcome is possible -- though I think the GOP is highly motivated to stand firm -- but this is just the first of many showdowns with public-sector unions in the months ahead.

17 It's going to be a long, long, long, two years.

18 Posted by: Michelle Obama's Landing Strip at February 18, 2011 02:59 PM (sHj00)

Have you no decency? I just ate!

19

You know, I've been predicting that the first major battle in this new civil war would either be between public-sector workers and the private sector, or between retirees and workers. It looks like the PubSec vs Private Sector battles come first.

Much will hinge on how this thing works out in Wisconsin. I think Democrats are hoping that one of two things will happen: either the GOP will buckle, or that the enraged Democrat throngs will get bored and go home. Either outcome is possible -- though I think the GOP is highly motivated to stand firm -- but this is just the first of many showdowns with public-sector unions in the months ahead.

If the GOP in Wisconsin buckles, it's all over. They will have seen mob tactics work and they will do it in every state.

They cannot buckle. They have to stand firm.

20 Middle East and North Africa in turmoil, domestic budget issues- but look what gins up Obama & Co. enthusiasm. It says it all about the man character and beliefs.

21 The private sector will no longer pay for the champagne and caviar of the public sector.

That is all. This temper tantrum is the public sector failing, utterly, to understand how spoiled they are.

Nobody else gets those goodies, and we have to do for ourselves AND for them.

No. More.

22 I would also suggest you find Walker's e-mail and the other state senators and let them know they are doing the right thing

23 Barry's got his own little...what was that band of jackbooted vigilantes that Woodrow Wilson had as his enforcers?

24 The Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature need to call short sessions every day over the weekend, including the Presidents Day holiday. This will force the unions to pay their members to come to the capital building over the weekend, probably showing a dramatic decline in the number protesters. It will also force the Democrats to remain out of state, ruining their weekend plans with their families.

25 I wonder if this year, 2011 will be looked at in the same way the years 1848 or 1968 were. Where protests changed the world.

26 @Monty,

Do you have an e-mail address for an interesting graph? I sent it to Ace, but it's Friday and the Valu-Rite delivery is due, so....

27 This will be Obama's downfall. Keep it up Purple Lipped Commie Boy.......keep it up..... Another Dem Senator (NM) calls it quits....Each day Novemeber 2012 is closer....

28

COOTUS!

may I borrow that please?

29 Not very presidnetial?  I would argue that the current POTUS defines the presidential seat as an opportunity to do exactly what he is currently doing.  Hopefully he'll be as successful as when he lobbied for the Chicago Olympics....

30

Have you no decency? I just ate!

Give me the best you've got...I've seen it all.

 

31 Ok. So do you guys think the Republicans will hold still? They have a perfect political hand right now with the democrats running away and Walker can blame them on making School go unattended! I wIsh I could attend the rally tomorrow..

32 Oh, The American Protective League.

33 Weren't the racketeering statutes made for stuff like this?

34 I can just see Obie in the Oval Office pounding his desk in glee and yelling: "Finally! I can do this! I know how to do this!"

35 BREAKING: Another Dem senator is calling it quits in 2012. I missed the name.

36 Someone disappeared the green stools thread!

37 I have never been more proud of my country then anytime in my life......................

38 Could somebody less lazy post the e-mail addresses again? I'll copy them and post them on (relevant) threads. It's a good reminder.

39

It's helpful in painting the Dems as the party wanting to force a government shutdown when they physically run away to shut down the Legislative branch of a State government.

And since Obama wants to Federalize the politics of the state showdowns with the unions, he gets to own their tactics, including the Wisconsin Dems and their legislative shutdown.

40

I want to see some local authority issue an arrest warrant for incitement against these punks.

Never happen, never go anywhere, but still...

41

They cannot buckle. They have to stand firm.

Posted by: Ben at February 18, 2011 03:00 PM (wuv1c)

They'd better damned well not, this is the first domino!

42 geez glenn beck said there would be chaos in order to take over and he is proving he was right.  And I bet he doesn't want to be right.

43 I think Democrats are hoping that one of two things will happen: either the GOP will buckle, or that the enraged Democrat throngs will get bored and go home.

Supposed to be cold and snowy Monday, that should dampen the kids' enthusiasm considerably.

Anyone in the Wisconsin area, please turn up for Breitbarts counter  protest.

Worth the trip just to hear Herman Cain, IMO.  We need some sort of moron signal. 

44 Okay, typing fail. They'd better damned well stand firm.

I don't know what I was trying to say, but I fucked it up either way.

45 COOTUS

That makes all the protestors COOTEES

46 37 Someone disappeared the green stools thread!

Posted by: Y-not at February 18, 2011 03:05 PM (pW2o

I'm glad you said that, thought I was going nuts.

47 If I read some of the news reports right, it is illegal in Wisconsin for teachers to strike.  So Obama has helped incite illegal behavior on the part of teachers in that state.  Right?

48 HA!! COOTUS.  Love it.

49 Not presidential, to be sure, be very like a radical organizer.

50 I have relatives in the area who will be there tomorrow. One said in his email "This is where we fight". This is it.

51 Never fear Jessie Jackson is there. The old race baiter couldn't miss an opportunity ...

52 BUT very like

53 We need some sort of moron signal. 

Posted by: HeatherRadish stands with Scott Walker at February 18, 2011 03:06 PM (nAOMZ)

that's easy, wear an ace of spades around your neck on a string

54 35 BREAKING: Another Dem senator is calling it quits in 2012. I missed the name.

Jeff Bingham of NM?  Or is there another one leaving, too?

55 35 Did it rhyme with Bingaman? 2 threads back.

56 Obama has shown us his true colors...He is a TRAITOR and should be removed from office....

57 47 If I read some of the news reports right, it is illegal in Wisconsin for teachers to strike. So Obama has helped incite illegal behavior on the part of teachers in that state. Right?

Posted by: Laurence at February 18, 2011 03:07 PM (GRoWk)

It is already proven that no one will enforce the law against that criminal son of a bitch, all we can do is document and endlessly repeat his crimes so his thug ass won't get re-elected.

58 I think Democrats are hoping that one of two things will happen: either the GOP will buckle, or that the enraged Democrat throngs will get bored and go home. I'll send Will.I.Am to Madison and all will be well. He always brings out the hope'n'change kids.

59 I think Walker needs to tell him to f*ck off. And soon.
Posted by: Ben at February 18, 2011 02:58 PM (wuv1c)

I thought he basically already did.  In a much more diplomatic way, of course.

60 54 We need some sort of moron signal.

Posted by: HeatherRadish stands with Scott Walker at February 18, 2011 03:06 PM (nAOMZ)

that's easy, wear an ace of spades around your neck on a string

Posted by: curious at February 18, 2011 03:08 PM (p302b)

I knew we kept you around for a reason.

61 Watch out!  The COOTUS has COOTIES!!!1111!!

62 They try to create a fiction to smear the right with, and it's just peachy when the left actually does it.

I've been saying this for years:

Literally everything a Progressive says is projection.

Everything.  They are scum-sucking punks, and they are so narcissistic that they can't imagine anyone being any other way.  Therefore their enemies MUST be guilty of everything they do.

63 Democrats in Wisconsin = the Party of NO SHOW.

64 We blame Bush and Palin !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

65 Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at February 18, 2011 03:09 PM (8y9MW)

I thought he did too, they were playing it on talk radio this morning.  It was very eloquent but very firm.

the dems are saying they can hide out forever.

who, on the other thread said you can get them on a bribe, that was moron brilliance.

66 Do you have an e-mail address for an interesting graph? Just host it on some image hosting service, and post a link to it. I generally use ImageShack.

67

For the last few years the battle-lines were being planned.  Now the battlefield is being set.  God help my beloved nation. 

68

It is meant to look like some sort of grassroots movement

 

ASSTROTURDS!

 

 

69 OFA:  Oligarchy for Amerikka

70 a moron signal

Somehow, I don't think this will work.  We will get confused and think we are supposed to eat bacon, or something.

71 Could somebody less lazy post the e-mail addresses again?

Michelle Malkin has them in this post. (Scroll down)

72 God help my beloved nation.

Amen, brother.
Though, they do say that God helps those who help themselves.

73 "COOTUS"

That's some funny shit right there.  Sounds like a side effect of a venereal disease.

74

Now can we begin the impeachment hearings?

75 We will get confused and think we are supposed to eat bacon, or something.

What?  You mean there's a time NOT to eat bacon?

76

Watch out!  The COOTUS has COOTIES!!!1111!!

Useful Tip: If you tighten up your Boob Belt, you can keep then out of your Chest Hair!

77 Posted by: BackwardsBoy at February 18, 2011 03:12 PM (b6qrg)

53 - 47.  What do you think?

78 71a moron signal

Somehow, I don't think this will work. We will get confused and think we are supposed to eat bacon, or something.

Posted by: Cherry π at February 18, 2011 03:12 PM (+sBB4)

Wait, what's the downside?

79 For the last few years the battle-lines were being planned.  Now the battlefield is being set.  God help my beloved nation.

This.  Everything since the Pelosi-engineered Democrat takeover in 2006 has been battlespace preparation.

They were caught completely flat-footed in 2010 by the tea party.  We got inside their OODA loop.  Walker and the WI Republicans have the chance to do so again.

I hope that they are successful.

80 O'Reilly could make himself useful here, for once.

81

When's it going to be time for Executive Order # 69?

Posted by: Michelle Obama's Landing Strip at February 18, 2011 02:59 PM (sHj00)

Can he fit them big fuckin ears between them big fuckin thighs?

82 Meticulous attention should be paid to the special relations and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the Government....The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.

83 Give me Liberty, or give me Illinois!

84

 

WELCOME TO 3RD WORLD AMERICA!

Just don't read that as 'Welcome to America you from the 3rd world!'  After Prez PeacePrize pulled a Swarzenegger (or however you spell that) with the budget he had all kinds of free time to organize and agitate Hugo Chavez syle.

85 I think Obama and crew have determined this is a critical battle.  If they can stop it here, they can stop it later.  They think.  I hope our guys in WI are treating it like that.  If we can win here, we can win later.

86 O'Reilly could make himself useful here, for once.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Wait, you were serious?

87 I'm so sick of the "organizer" label. Even though it's the gayest possible title one could have, it falsely implies leadership skills. And Obama couldn't organize a fuckup in a whorehouse.

88 38 Could somebody less lazy post the e-mail addresses again? I'll copy them and post them on (relevant) threads. It's a good reminder.

Posted by: Merovign, Bond Villain at February 18, 2011 03:05 PM (bxiXv)

Go to Michelle Malkin's site, the support WI article has all the email addresses. Here's a link for ya...

http://is.gd/jpUsdD

89 I just read a post on a lib site.  they are angry because they claim that the governor has "overstepped his bounds" by taking away their collective bargaining rights.  They are saying it isn't the money, it's their rights.

I wonder what that law really says.

90

When's it going to be time for Executive Order # 69?

Posted by: Michelle Obama's Landing Strip


NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Posted by: Darth Vader puking in his helmet at February 18, 2011 03:08 PM (YnDAT)

 

I had to reread your handle--I first saw it as "Darth Vader Poking in his helmet"

91 Thugs not hugs!

92 Yes, they're astroturding.

93 If I read some of the news reports right, it is illegal in Wisconsin for teachers to strike.  So Obama has helped incite illegal behavior on the part of teachers in that state.  Right?

Posted by: Laurence at February 18, 2011 03:07 PM (GRoWk)

Suave.

94 I would also suggest you find Walker's e-mail and the other state senators and let them know they are doing the right thing

Posted by: Ben at February 18, 2011 03:01 PM (wuv1c)

I believe Michelle Malkin has a list with email addresses up on her site.

95

Someone disappeared the green stools thread!

^{Posted by: Y-not at February 18, 2011 03:05 PM (pW2o}

I'm glad you said that, thought I wasgoing nuts.
^{Posted by: curious at February 18, 2011 03:07 PM (p302b)}

I have that happen a lot.  I think it's the Spinach.

96 Runaway Dem: "We'll stay away for weeks". If true, couldn't that be construed as an abdication of their duties and therefore grounds for removal? And how does state business get done without a quorum in the senate?

97

O'Reilly could make himself useful here, for once.

Don't count on it.  He's just a useful idiot anymore.

98 Is this it???  Are these fuckers finally drawing a line in the sand??? 

Let's Roll!!!!

99 Thanks again FiftyTwo Percenters, you fucking fucks.

100 Posted by: curious at February 18, 2011 03:15 PM (p302b)

I saw the text of the bill posted somewhere.  If I were less lazy I'd track it down and post a link.

My understanding is that it basically says they can collectively bargain for their salaries, but not for benefits/pensions.

101 In the event of a reduction in federal appropriations, Obama's regime has already announced what they intend to cut FIRST:  furloughing the workers at the Social Security Administration who send out the checks!

It's necessary, because they can't cut the wait staff at the White House or golf outings, due to national security.

102 Once a community organizer agitator always.....

103

Oooooh - tough guy.  Bullying Wisconsin's Governor.

Try that in Jersey.  I dare ya.

104 We're rolling...

105 97 Runaway Dem: "We'll stay away for weeks". If true, couldn't that be construed as an abdication of their duties and therefore grounds for removal? And how does state business get done without a quorum in the senate?

Posted by: Monty at February 18, 2011 03:16 PM (4Pleu)

there has to be a point at which the business of the state takes precedence over the tantrum of the legislators so maybe the governor will appoint republicans to pass the budget.

106
Obama's poll numbers must drop now.

107

Totally disgraceful for a US President.  No class whatsoever.  A complete buffoon!

I can't wait until he is voted out. Hopefully we can hang in there that long.

It gets harder and harder to believe in evolution when people seem to keep getting more and more stupid.

108 And Obama couldn't organize a fuckup in a whorehouse. I don't even think he could fuckup a whore with his organ.

109 Hmmm. Is this really a big fuckin' deal?

110

53 - 47.  What do you think?

Yeah, I know. But a Boy can dream, can't he?

The best thing that could happen would be for Walker to stand tall, like a certain Texas Ranger, even tho' he's not in Texas, and not a Ranger, but still, you know what I mean. Those communist union pukes need a good smackdown.

You'd think that someone, somewhere, would find something this jugeared jackass has done that would warrant some kind of investigation...

111
COOTUS ? Isn't there a shot that cures that?

112 So we've got COOTUS and The First COOTER  in the WH.  When will be rid of this meddlesome scourge?

113

Have you no decency? I just ate!

Give me the best you've got...I've seen it all.

 

Posted by: Karen Carpenter's Toilet at February 18, 2011 03:04 PM

Hahahaha.  You ain't got nuthin' on me!

114 My understanding is that it basically says they can collectively bargain for their salaries, but not for benefits/pensions.

Don't normally like to quote myself, but as a follow-up:

I believe this is a brilliant move on many levels.  One of the things Teachers cry about most is that they're (supposedly) underpaid.  If you force them to look at their benefits like everyone else does, they really are paid at a (somewhat) reasonable level.  With the current status quo, they're paid very, very well.

To make that up, they'd have to jack their salaries through the roof.  This a) wouldn't fly, and b) would prove the lie of the "underpaid" argument.

115

116  If I read some of the news reports right, it is illegal in Wisconsin for teachers to strike.  So Obama has helped incite illegal behavior on the part of teachers in that state.  Right?

Posted by: Laurence at February 18, 2011 03:07 PM (GRoWk)

 

Odouchebag has never been one to follow the law. He sees himself as a power above everything

117
In the 60s the Federal government sent troops to get kids INTO school.

118 I wonder if this year, 2011 will be looked at in the same way the years 1848 or 1968 were.

It's reminding me more of 1950.

In China.

119 I'm curious as to how the parents in Wisconsin are taking this. Their kids have been out of school for what, three days now? Are the parents having to take days off to to attend to their kids? Anyone have any insight?

120
What if the Gov issues an ultimatum...

get back to class in 3 days, or he will privatize the schools.

121

You'd think that someone, somewhere, would find something this jugeared jackass has done that would warrant some kind of investigation...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at February 18, 2011 03:19 PM (b6qrg)

Find?  You have to close your eyes not to see them.

I completely agree that he SHOULD be impeached.  I just don't think it will happen.  By the time we have the wherewithal to force the issue, I'm hoping he won't be President anymore.

122

Hahahaha.  You ain't got nuthin' on me!

^{Posted by: Momma Cass' Granny Panties at February 18, 2011 03:19 PM (yQWNf)}

Lots of Villagers lost in those Mudslides.

123
Wait for fake death threats on Dem senators and teachers

124

BREAKING: Another Dem senator is calling it quits in 2012. I missed the name.

Jeff Bingham of NM?  Or is there another one leaving, too?

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at February 18, 2011 03:08 PM (bxvFd)

I don't know who, but it was just announced today.

The dems have to defend 23 senate seats in 2012.

125
Are the thugs spitting on Republicans in front of the state house in WI?

126 Obama just commited a crime by invoking internal civil discourse.........Thank You

127 Can't Gov. Walker figure out an executive order to issue that would so upset the Dems that they'd force the State Senators to come back to deal with it?  Like, "Absent a state law to authorize it, I am ordering all State funding for abortion services to be halted."

128 I saw the text of the bill posted somewhere.  If I were less lazy I'd track it down and post a link.

Lol.  Here.

Collective bargaining – The bill would make various changes to limit collective bargaining for most public employees to wages.  Total wage increases could not exceed a cap based on the consumer price index (CPI) unless approved by referendum.  Contracts would be limited to one year and wages would be frozen until the new contract is settled.  Collective bargaining units are required to take annual votes to maintain certification as a union.  Employers would be prohibited from collecting union dues and members of collective bargaining units would not be required to pay dues.  These changes take effect upon the expiration of existing contracts.  Local law enforcement and fire employees, and state troopers and inspectors would be exempt from these changes. 

129
why aren't pics of protest signs accompanying this post?

such as the sign with Walker in the cross hairs?

130

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value."

131 128 Can't Gov. Walker figure out an executive order to issue that would so upset the Dems that they'd force the State Senators to come back to deal with it?  Like, "Absent a state law to authorize it, I am ordering all State funding for abortion services to be halted."

I think declaring next Tuesday "Brett Favre Day" would do it. 

132

Someone needs to have their socking privileges revoked.

Number 13, I'm looking at you.

Socking is a privilege; not a right.

133 You know, I was wondering why so many of the protesters in the capitol were wearing red.  Crossed my mind, and I brushed it off.

Did you guys see that? 

134

"a generous parent should have said, "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace"

 

135 People told me that if I voted for Republican candidates, we'd have a government shutdown ...

... and they were right

136 This stuff is really spooky, dude.

137

Obama's (campaign arm)...Behind Wisconsin Protests

Oh - He's elbow deep in it.

138
**new demands from the WI Democrats who are holding children and themselves hostage in a hotel**

They now want access to the adult tv channels and want the mini-bar restocked or they will kill the hotel cleaning maid.

139

You know, I was wondering why so many of the protesters in the capitol were wearing red.  Crossed my mind, and I brushed it off

 

I'm sure it's because they all had their colors done, and they are all "Autumns".  (I'm dating myself!)

140 Goddamn _(sorry) him.  Goddamn Obama to hell.

141
I say we call them Union "bullies" instead of "thugs". Use Alinsky "use their own rules against them"

142 good video at hot air.

143 134 You know, I was wondering why so many of the protesters in the capitol were wearing red.  Crossed my mind, and I brushed it off.

Did you guys see that? 

Posted by: rdbrewer at February 18, 2011 03:28 PM (gZQBG)

More effing Tshirts?...almost as bad as the freaking ribbons. Tshirt for every occasion

144

What's always getting left out from this is that the Governor has said that the choices are either accept the deal or 6,000 state employees get laid off, which means these teachers are basically telling 6,000 of their co-workers to get bent. So much for union solidarity.

145 why aren't pics of protest signs accompanying this post?

I'm mostly unimpressed by how unserious these twerps are.  I mean, we have our fun with Ewoks and pudding, but Quenchy isn't trying to convince anyone a billion borrowed dollars must be spent to make us feel better about ourselves...

146 Seeing Red

147 Fire everyone one of those fucking teachers who called in sick.  I've had it with this bunch.  Go PATCO on their fat asses.

148 Please forward my email and jackboot size to Gov. Walker.

149 56 It's Jeff Bingaman who's the retiring senator Jeff Bingham is Patrick Warburton's character on "Rules of Engagement" on CBS

150

"This stuff is really spooky, dude."

Not really.

"I thank God, that I fear not. I see no real cause for fear. I know our situation well, and can see the way out of it."

151 35 BREAKING: Another Dem senator is calling it quits in 2012. I missed the name.

Posted by: Ed Anger at February 18, 2011 03:05 PM (7+pP9)

Bingaman (NM). I posted this in that thread: I'd love it if I could talk either of my parents, my sister or my brother-in-law (all Rs, long-time ABQ residents and very conservative) into running for this seat.

However, my mom just said NFW.  My bil would be the ideal candidate.  Military, cop, nice family.

152

I say we call them Union "bullies" instead of "thugs". Use Alinsky "use their own rules against them"

 

Rush had a great point about this:  "These are the people that go to school every day and teach your kids that bullying is wrong.  Yet these same people are out there bullying the governor and Republican legislators."

 

Hypocrisy--it's what's for breakfast when you're a lib.

153 Red shirts.

154 I guess we're all actually Illinoisans, because we took our ball and went home.

155 20 Eyes

156 You know, I was wondering why so many of the protesters in the capitol were wearing red.  Crossed my mind, and I brushed it off.

I haven't seen it, but the Wisconsin Badgers' colors (WU? UofW?  Whatever) are Red and Black, I think.

Oooh!  Maybe it could turn out like Les Miserables!

157 means these teachers are basically telling 6,000 of their co-workers to get bent. So much for union solidarity.

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at February 18, 2011 03:30 PM (JxMoP)

I think thats almost always the case...if an ultimatum comes down..raises and layoffs or or no raises and no layoffs, layoffs are usually required.

158 We support the teachers of Wisconstan and Iman Obama.

159 Posted by: The US Constitution at February 18, 2011 03:24 PM (By4wu)

Never heard of it.  Must be something for the cables.

160 Clampdown

161 "These are the people that go to school every day and teach your kids that bullying is wrong."

It's only wrong to bully the gay kids. The gay kids still get to bully the Christian kids. And the teachers encourage bullying the non-Gaia-worshipping kids...

162 People told me that if I voted for McCain, we'd get a cheap dime store hood for President ...

... and they were right

163 At times like this I love Jim Quinn's Union Update theme:

"I don't wanna work, I want to bang on the drum all day..."

164 I haven't seen it, but the Wisconsin Badgers' colors (WU? UofW?  Whatever) are Red and Black, I think.

That's the claim. 

The Wisconsin-as-pinko-fist logo the "Walker resistance" is using is a sort of beige-on-green, because that looks less threatening than the red fist.

165

Once more the Democrat progressives think they can create a grass-root effort with top-down direction.  These jackwagons would screw up a party at the Jack Daniels plant, even with instructions.

166 165 At times like this I love Jim Quinn's Union Update theme:

"I don't wanna work, I want to bang on the drum your head all day..."

Posted by: AmishDude at February 18, 2011 03:37 PM (T0NGe)

167 Obama has just committed political suicide. Like a good little socialist in time of crisis he can't keep his true opinion to himself. He just declared himself an enemy of people of Wisconsin after the people selected the current government through the political process last Novemeber. He should be removed immediately from office which he pretends to occupy

168 It's time for Iowahawk to give us a second installment in the Beltway Adventure series.

169 Catholic bishops defend the rights of poor Mexican farm workers:

MILWAUKEE – Quoting Popes Benedict XVI and John Paul II, Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki issued a statement Feb. 16 that came down squarely in favor of workers’ rights in the face of efforts by Wisconsin’s new governor to restrict those rights.

“Hard times do not nullify the moral obligation each of us has to respect the legitimate rights of workers,” Archbishop Listecki said.

“Every union, like every other economic actor, is called to work for the common good, to make sacrifices when required, and to adjust to new economic realities,” he said.

“However, it is equally a mistake to marginalize or dismiss unions as impediments to economic growth.”

Archbishop Listecki was responding to efforts by new Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, to push through measures restricting the rights of unions in a special session of the state legislature.

The bill would strip most government workers – at the state, county and local levels, including teachers – of nearly all collective bargaining rights. The only exceptions would be for police, firefighters and the state patrol. Unions would have to gain approval in a public referendum to seek pay raises higher than the consumer price index.

170 You know, fuck it. I spent 20 minutes making a list with clickable links in this stupid editor, and a semicolon and space delimited list for copying to e-mail programs, and the fucking e-mails themselves are "long strings of unbroken text" that are annoying.

Go look at Michelle Malkin's site for the list.

Waste of fucking good time. I know this software is provided gratis, but for fuck's sake this editor sucks ass.

171 Posted by: Winston Holmes at February 18, 2011 03:39 PM (By4wu)

Ah.  The youthful naivety.  How I miss it.

Obama could do this every other month between now and election day, and it won't hurt his chances at re-election.  Indeed, it will just energize the union bullies (I like that) more.

He's weak in other places, but this is a direct play to his base.

172

Collective bargaining units are required to take annual votes to maintain certification as a union.  Employers would be prohibited from collecting union dues and members of collective bargaining units would not be required to pay dues. 

This is the crux of the matter. The union bosses would gladly screw their membership on the retirement and health insurance but on these they will not budge. Enacting the above would be the death of the government unions and therefore the end of their own phoney baloney jobs.

I wonder if the unions have figured out that they have made the mistake of backing the Governor and the WI Republicans into a corner. Walker can't back down; if he does, the government unions will own the state forever, there will never, ever be any concessions from them on any topic, and it will be mob rule from this point forward.

173 Sorry to be so freaking obvious, but it's Friday and I guess I've had a rough week.

Is what the DNC is doing legal? Because they're basically funding riots, correct? Is this, you know, kosher?

174

172,

Yes, it can be a PITA...

but keep up the contacts (at Michelle's site). Email, call, lend whatever support you can. Don't stop.

Pardon my rewrite:

"You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great Rebirth of the Nation, you WON'T have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, "Well, your Granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana"

175

"Badgering in Wisconsin" - we knew this moment was coming and it is just the beginning of the beginning backlash against unions.

Wisconsin sure has put a negative spotlight on the teachers unions and unfortunately teachers in general. My opinion - public service unions are bankrupting cities, counties, and states across our Nation (mostly because of absurd and bloated retirement and health care plans). In addition, tenure is allowing low performing teachers to remain in the workforce. An example of this idiocy – “Middle School teacher Amanda Valente was awarded the Teacher of the Year in NJ at an award ceremony. Due to the budget constraints from the fiscal crisis affecting New Jersey, Valente was among the 25 teachers fired”. Tenure allowed the Teacher of the Year to be terminated - ^{Unbelievable!!}

176

* No offense to the Morons in Louisiana, of course...

177

Posted by: Jump Down Turn Around at February 18, 2011 03:41 PM (Lz//J)

 

The Catholic church has been the leftists "state church" for a long time.  I'm not surprised by this.  Thankfully most people in that area are Lutherans.

178 Have I mentioned I hate Madison?

179 I'm a Catholic, and I never listen to the these Bishops and Cardinals when it comes to politics. I've found that the loudest ones are usually the most left.

180 We support the teachers of Wisconstan and Iman Obama.

Posted by: The Ayatolla Khoemani at February 18, 2011 03:35 PM (By4wu)

Words like that will get you called RACIST......Just ask John Wiley Price.

181 Red shirts are appropriate, considering that the Dems are more than happy to send their foot soldiers to the slaughter...

182 I'm Catholic as well, and I too have little use for most of the Church's political positions.  I don't understand, myself, how they can support Dems.  Of course, I also can't understand how they let the priests touch little boys for so long without stopping it.

183

Community Organizer of the United States ("COOTUS")

I prefer "Community Organizer IN the United States", rather than "of".

Not because I want to get into Birther arguments, but because then the acronym is COITUS, representing how we're all getting screwed.

184 184 I'm Catholic as well, and I too have little use for most of the Church's political positions.  I don't understand, myself, how they can support Dems.  Of course, I also can't understand how they let the priests touch little boys for so long without stopping it.

Posted by: NC Ref at February 18, 2011 03:56 PM (/izg2)

Infiltrated by Liberation Theologians?  I don't know; I'm asking.

185 I don't know either.  The Church Administration...like most government administrations...has thoroughly screwed things up.  My relationship with God has little to do with the Church, and nothing at all with lib apologists for child abuse.

186 "Obama, DNC Behind Wisconsin Protests"—rdbrewer

 

Well, duh!!!

187 Another idiot WI teacher just shrieked at the Fox camera, "We're doing this for the children!!!1111!!!!  Without unions, there will be no weekends, no eight-hour work days!!1111eleventy+++!!!1111!!!!"

There was a hag yelling this yesterday.  Stupid bints.

188 184 -- I think they let the pedophilia go on for waay too long because the older priests probably didn't understand it, and the "Lavender Mafia" of younger priests probably looked the other way, because they didn't want to risk the possible attention on them.

189

^{that's easy, wear an ace of spades around your neck on a string}

^{Posted by: curious at February 18, 2011 03:08 PM (p302b)}

I thought that was the hobo-hunting license. Oh well. Never figured on the moron nation getting organized worth a darn....

190 Hi guys, I'm a lurker from Wisconsin.  I love this site, but I don't usually comment because I feel like I'd be butting in on an over heard conversation.  I think I can explain the reason I'm not wearing any red if I make it to Madison tomorrow.

The red shirts are because of a cause on facebook called "Stop the Attack".  On Sunday my husband's facebook friends started asking people to show their support for state workers by wearing red.  By Monday it was an official cause.

191 Here ya go Ben and all:

Senator list http://legis.wisconsin.gov/insession/senate/index.htm

Gov. Walker govgeneral@wisconsin.gov

192 anyone seen this garbage floating around? http://tinyurl.com/4nzyphx

193 The demacRAT fascists that hollyweird ding-bat JULIA ROBERTS said was OF THE PEOPLE,BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE has turned out to be a bunch of elected tyrants and despots and roberts is just another drug and booze induced hollyweirdo

194

The red shirts are because of a cause on facebook called "Stop the Attack". 

With any luck, they'll all be taken out so we can see how the episode's monster works, and let Kirk, Spock, and McCoy take care of business.

195

... but didn't Obama and Ayers work against the teachers union in Chicago ?

So this isn't a stand on principle .. it's purely a money/power play

196 COOTUS

Christ, that's funny.

197 The tactics of the unions and Dem State Senators in WI shows without any doubt that the unions and Dems do no believe in democracy. And that is a meme the R's in WI need to be pushing every chance they get because it is guaranteed to outrage the WI people who voted the Dems out even more than they already are.

198 Yeah, shocking that Mr. Post-Partisan^TM would be insinuating himself into this entirely state-level issue, right?

The WI GOP and the RNC should have ads up tomorrow along the lines of "While hard-working Wisconsins are struggling to get by in this suck-fest economy WI Senate Democrats are taking a long weekend living it up out of state, while the DNC and other out-of-state interests are organizing illegal strikes by public employees who are using that "new tone" we've heard so much about..."

These ads write themselves.  But once again it looks like the GOP is ready to bring a wet noodle to a street fight.

199 I posted this at PJM earlier, but perhaps some morons might also be interested in a little observation from Battleground Wisconsin: Today after work, I went grocery shopping and ran a few other errands near a busy intersection in Shorewood WI. Shorewood is a well-to-do, lily white and generally very liberal suburb of Milwaukee. There was a small band of high school students, in obviously high spirits because of their extra long weekend, jumping around and waving signs saying “Support Worker Rights.” They were accompanied by a few older people, teachers I assume, holding similar signs. This is what struck me: it was rush hour, plenty of cars were going past and during the course of 15 or 20 minutes or so, I didn’t hear one single honk of support from any passing cars. This is a ‘burb where there is no shortage of Volvos with Obama/Biden and “Co-Exist” bumper stickers. I remember the anti-war rallies during the Bush years. The honks and cheers of support and encouragement the “Bush = Hitler” protesters got were constant. “Walker = Hitler” doesn’t seem to be going over nearly as well.The silence of the rush hour crowd was very noticable. I don’t blame the kids for being clueless because they are kids, but their elders are another matter. Did any of those bozos pause to consider that even a wussy Volvo-driving Obama voter, driving home after a long, hard work week, might have glanced at those signs and thought “Worker rights? Hey, I’m a worker too – been busting my butt all week. Had to scramble to find sitters for the kids today and it made me late for work. Nobody will stand on the corner waving signs if I get laid off, or take a pay cut. Screw these people.” Some otherwise pretty apolitical friends were furious at having to take two days off to watch their kids. They’ve become big Scott Walker fans. Keep making friends and influencing people, lefties, it’s working so well! Really, if pro-union protesters can't attract a bunch of cheering, honking libtard supporters in libtard Shorewood of all places, you know Walker's winning this one.

200 Technically, a (large) street fight is just about all u-no-hoo needs to declare martial law.  There is no longer any congressional oversight or approval needed for that declaration.  How bad does it have to get in the streets?  I'm sure the guy riding the camel, swinging the bullwhip would do it.

201 Obama went all in, because this is his only chance to hold WI in 2012. All his support hinges on the union machines cranking out the votes and running the GOTV effort. Democrats rely on our tax dollars to fund their campaigns, and in this economy, tax payers figured out that's what the stimulus was. Now, it's called "investment," but it doesn't matter much with a Republican House. If it isn't put down in WI, this revolt will spread throughout the Rust Belt. Walker is doing the whole nation a favor by standing up to these union thugs.

202 "ran a few other errands near a busy intersection in Shorewood WI."

That must have been the intersection of Capitol Dr. and Oakland Ave. I drove by there about 3:30 on Friday. The clueless demonstrators got a few honks, although not very many and none from me.

Shorewood is a curious place: Lots of Obama bumper stickers, and close enough to UWM to get actual Marxists of various stripes.